Jeremiah 38:6

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Summary

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

Took

Jeremiah 37:21

Psalm 109:5

Luke 3:19

Into

Hebrews 10:36

Hammelech

Jeremiah 36:26

And they

Jeremiah 38:11

And in

General references

Jeremiah 36:5

Jeremiah 38:25

Lamentations 3:55

Bible References

Took

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers'street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

Into

When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

Hammelech

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah hid them.

And they

So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

And in

behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: now that thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.

and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.

General references

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of Jehovah:

But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king; hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:

I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.